{"id":11550,"date":"2026-04-22T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11550"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:41:23","slug":"with-sunny-warm-weather-were-a-busy-as-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/04\/22\/with-sunny-warm-weather-were-a-busy-as-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"With sunny warm weather, we’re a busy as bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, after going to town and delivering seed packets to the post office, I came home and jumped on the riding lawn mower to chop debris in the gardens. As Will and Drew were pulling tomato cages and stakes in the Wolf Garden, I went down to the Sand Garden and started mowing. It was nice to get it chopped clean but boy oh boy, the wind sure blew chaff in my face when I turned to mow against the wind! Yuck! I’ve got debris under my shirt and jeans too. Shower for sure tonight!<\/p>\n

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Here I am this morning, chopping debris in the Sand Garden. Our riding mower is my mini-brush hog.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After I got done out there, I drove the mower to the Wolf Garden, where Will and Drew were working. They had three rows of tomato cages and stakes pulled so I went down and pulled out all the variety name stakes. Then I hopped on the baby Kubota and started tilling. I had planned on only tilling where the asparagus will be planted. But the soil was perfect, so I kept up, nearly tilling the whole garden, some of it twice or even three times to break up the heavy hay mulch that was between the tomatoes.<\/p>\n

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I was so happy the soil was nice in the Wolf Garden so I could till. We should be able to plant the asparagus soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I got pretty pooped out and quit while they still had a few bean trellises to pull. By the time I’d gotten home with the lawn mower, grabbed them something to drink and started back, I met them coming back on the four-wheeler. It was all done! Tomorrow I’ll finish up tilling out there and see how the Sand Garden tills. I do need to move a half bale of hay Will was using for mulch out of the way. But it should scoot along with the bucket of the baby Kubota just fine.<\/p>\n

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Will and Drew were busy today, pulling tomato cages and stakes, some 220 of them, plus bean trellises and stakes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will and Drew stacked up the tomato cages on the edge of the garden, ready to use again soon. They’re made of concrete re-enforcing wire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wolves were howling fairly close, so we didn’t see hide nor hair of the fox last night. That was probably a good choice for the fox. Hondo went out and howled with the wolf for a while. Then he\/they moved on and all was quiet. I thought I heard Wood Frogs croaking last night in the beaver pond! Yep, spring is here. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, after going to town and delivering seed packets to the post office, I came home and jumped on the riding lawn mower to chop debris in the gardens. As Will and Drew were pulling tomato cages and stakes in the Wolf Garden, I went down to the Sand Garden and started mowing. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11556,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}